> From: "James Hare" <messedrocker(a)gmail.com>
>
> Yeah, I find that annoying, too.
>
> Like this one time when I found an excellent article from the Mayo
> Clinic
> about Tinnitus, so I run over to the Wikipedia article about it and
> find a
> detailed article. Aww, so much for that!
I've read a few articles about tinnitus and one thing which none of
them (including ours) explain is why the word is "tinnitus" when
you'd think it ought to be "tintinnitus."
(Oh, the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, the
tinnabulation of the bells... see what I mean?)